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Friday, 28 June 2013

Plain Sponge Cake–A Simple Charm…

Baking sponge cake is
rather challenging. It’s either the cake rises too much or it turns up to
be horribly hard.

I've
never succeeded in baking sponge cake from my old oven previously and had given
up trying to bake sponge cake.

This is my 1st attempt in baking sponge cake successfully.

Look! It really tastes good. It's so puffy and soft. It's
light too. I was kind of shock at first to see the cake shrank a little
bit when it’s cooled down. Later I found out that it is because no
stabilizing agent is used. So there’s nothing to worry.

It is a good recipe to use it as a basis for many kinds of
layered cake. Invert the cake and let the bottom be the top for spreading
cream and decorating.

A cup of coffee to go with piece of sponge cake, it’s not a
great accomplished afternoon tea but it’s has a simple charm that makes it a
pleasure.

Ingredient(7" square pan)

15g
Caster Sugar

4
Egg yolk

50g
Corn Oil

60g
Fresh milk (non-fat)

1/5
tsp Vanilla Extract

90g
Cake Flour

4
Egg white

1/4
tsp Cream of Tartar

40g
Caster Sugar

Method

Method

Step A

1.Whisk egg yolk with sugar.

2.Add in corn oil and milk,
stir to continue.

3.Add in cake flour, mix
well, set aside

Step B

1.Add cream of tartar into
egg white, beat ill foamy.

2.Gradually add in sugar,
beat till stiff peaks at speed.

Step C

1.Take 1/3 portion of egg
white mixture and use hand whisk to mix with the egg yolk mixture till light.

4.Bake at pre-heated oven at
180 Deg C. Then put the pan into the oven and bake at 180 Deg C for 27mins.

5.When it’s baked, remove the
sponge cake from oven and cooled the cake upside down on a wire rack before
unmolding.

Tip on Whipping Egg Whites

1.Whipping of egg whites has to be
extremely careful. The mixer attachment and bowl have to be washed
clean. Whipping of the egg whites will be affected negatively if there’s
slightest of remains stick on the utensils.

2.Eggs at room temperature whip better
than eggs straight out from the fridge.

3.If you want the cake to rise well, add
the whipped egg whites immediately onto the batter and do not keep the batter
too long after the whipped egg whites has been folded in.

4.Always fold the lighter ingredient and
there’s egg white into the heavier ingredient, which is the batter.